2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2009 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 6–8 November 2009 at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. It was the final race of the 250cc two-stroke class, as Moto2 (600cc four-stroke) replaced it from 2010 onwards. The MotoGP race was won by Dani Pedrosa.

  2009 Valencian Community Grand Prix

Race details
Race 17 of 17 races in the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	8 November 2009
Official name	Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana
Location	Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.005 km (2.489 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position Rider Casey Stoner Time 1:32.256 Fastest lap Rider Dani Pedrosa Time 1:32.778 Podium First Dani Pedrosa Second Valentino Rossi Third Jorge Lorenzo
250cc
Pole position Rider Alex Debón Time 1:36.116 Fastest lap Rider Héctor Barberá Time 1:36.866 Podium First Héctor Barberá Second Álvaro Bautista Third Raffaele De Rosa
125cc
Pole position Rider Julián Simón Time 1:41.472 Fastest lap Rider Julián Simón Time 1:41.650 Podium First Julián Simón Second Bradley Smith Third Pol Espargaró

MotoGP classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	3	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	46:47.553	2	25
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+2.630	4	20
3	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Fiat Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+2.913	3	16
4	5	Colin Edwards	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+32.515	5	13
5	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	30	+34.585	6	11
6	24	Toni Elías	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+34.888	8	10
7	11	Ben Spies	Sterilgarda Yamaha Team	Yamaha	30	+37.706	9	9
8	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	30	+38.364	10	8
9	36	Mika Kallio	Pramac Racing	Ducati	30	+42.491	11	7
10	15	Alex de Angelis	San Carlo Honda Gresini	Honda	30	+43.689	12	6
11	14	Randy de Puniet	LCR Honda MotoGP	Honda	30	+46.018	7	5
12	52	James Toseland	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	30	+50.226	14	4
13	44	Aleix Espargaró	Pramac Racing	Ducati	30	+57.168	16	3
14	65	Loris Capirossi	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+1:06.877	13	2
15	7	Chris Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	Suzuki	30	+1:11.701	18	1
16	41	Gábor Talmácsi	Scot Racing Team MotoGP	Honda	30	+1:14.405	17
17	33	Marco Melandri	Hayate Racing Team	Kawasaki	30	+1:33.425	15
DNS	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati Marlboro Team	Ducati	0	Accident in the warm-up lap	11
Sources:

• ^1 – Casey Stoner did not start the race. His place on the grid was left vacant.

250 cc classification

Alex Debón was due to start on pole position, but due to injuries sustained in qualifying practice he did not take part in the race. Therefore, everyone else was moved up one place on the final starting grid.

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	40	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	27	44:10.601	2	25
2	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	27	+3.663	8	20
3	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Honda	27	+5.665	10	16
4	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	27	+5.680	5	13
5	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	27	+13.601	3	11
6	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	27	+13.697	6	10
7	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	27	+27.438	4	9
8	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	27	+35.097	11	8
9	15	Roberto Locatelli	Gilera	27	+35.866	13	7
10	48	Shoya Tomizawa	Honda	27	+40.176	15	6
11	73	Shuhei Aoyama	Honda	27	+49.095	19	5
12	52	Lukáš Pešek	Aprilia	27	+53.132	17	4
13	11	Balázs Németh	Aprilia	27	+1:06.014	18	3
14	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	27	+1:18.692	14	2
15	53	Valentin Debise	Honda	27	+1:18.876	20	1
16	8	Bastien Chesaux	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	22
17	56	Vladimir Leonov	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	21
18	33	William Dunlop	Honda	26	+1 lap	24
19	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	26	+1 lap	23
Ret	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	23	Accident	12
Ret	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	20	Accident	1
Ret	7	Axel Pons	Aprilia	19	Retirement	16
Ret	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	11	Retirement	7
Ret	55	Héctor Faubel	Honda	7	Accident	9
DNS	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia		Injured
OFFICIAL 250cc REPORT

125 cc classification

Pos.	No.	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	60	Julián Simón	Aprilia	24	41:17.553	1	25
2	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	24	+0.220	3	20
3	44	Pol Espargaró	Derbi	24	+12.123	8	16
4	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	24	+17.577	2	13
5	78	Marcel Schrötter	Honda	24	+17.917	7	11
6	6	Joan Olivé	Derbi	24	+18.334	5	10
7	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	24	+18.502	12	9
8	11	Sandro Cortese	Derbi	24	+18.553	10	8
9	35	Randy Krummenacher	Aprilia	24	+18.731	15	7
10	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	24	+21.280	6	6
11	77	Dominique Aegerter	Derbi	24	+23.635	19	5
12	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	24	+34.369	22	4
13	39	Luis Salom	Aprilia	24	+37.950	24	3
14	73	Takaaki Nakagami	Aprilia	24	+38.090	18	2
15	14	Johann Zarco	Aprilia	24	+40.043	21	1
16	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	24	+44.478	14
17	93	Marc Márquez	KTM	24	+58.437	4
18	53	Jasper Iwema	Honda	24	+1:03.814	25
19	42	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia	24	+1:08.362	33
20	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Loncin	24	+1:24.971	28
21	87	Luca Marconi	Aprilia	23	+1 lap	32
Ret	16	Cameron Beaubier	KTM	23	Accident	17
Ret	10	Luca Vitali	Aprilia	21	Accident	34
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	17	Retirement	20
Ret	76	Iván Maestro	Aprilia	11	Retirement	31
Ret	21	Jakub Kornfeil	Loncin	9	Accident	30
Ret	17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	8	Accident	16
Ret	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	6	Accident	27
Ret	12	Esteve Rabat	Aprilia	5	Accident	11
Ret	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia	5	Accident	9
Ret	50	Sturla Fagerhaug	KTM	4	Accident	29
Ret	88	Michael Ranseder	Aprilia	3	Retirement	23
Ret	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	1	Retirement	13
DNS	95	Joan Perelló	Honda	0	Did not start	26
DNS	99	Danny Webb	Aprilia		Did not start
DNQ	19	Quentin Jacquet	Aprilia		Did not qualify
OFFICIAL 125cc REPORT

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round seventeen has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Pos.	Rider	Points
1	Valentino Rossi	306
2	Jorge Lorenzo	261
3	Dani Pedrosa	234
4	Casey Stoner	220
5	Colin Edwards	161

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos.	Constructor	Points
1	Yamaha	386
2	Honda	297
3	Ducati	272
4	Suzuki	133
5	Kawasaki	108

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.